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A Simple Plan to Avert the Fiscal Cliff

What should Congress do on the Fiscal Cliff? 1) Lock in $1.2 trillion in ten-year sequester savings. 2) Extend ALL current tax rates for one year. 3) Reform taxes and entitlements to avert another debt downgrade. Questions?

P.S. From now on, every debt ceiling increase should be offset by an equivalent amount of spending reductions, in the same bill. No more kicking the can down the road!

May I suggest: “The National Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2012. This is a temporary act of Congress to resolve a fiscal crisis ($16 trillion dollars of debt), most of which other sovereigns are the creditors, which has threatened the sovereignty and credit of the nation, and acting under the US Constitution and taxing and commerce authority granted therein, the US will impose the following tax which shall continue until such time the federal deficit shall decrease to a level lower than $5 trillion dollars: It shall be the law that that: (1) each manufacturer of personal property of any kind shall certify on the box or label of every item sold in the United States whether or not it is (x) assembled abroad or (y) assembled in the US but parts consisting more than 85% imported. Manufacturers shall operate in good faith and failure to provide labels shall impose an automatic federal tax unless and until such time a proper label is put on the product. (2) each retailer to the consumer shall collect a 5% federal tax on (x) all imported goods and (y) goods assembled in the US but parts consisting more than 85% imported. Retailers shall operate in good faith and fines assessed by the IRS or any of its agencies on retailers failing to collect such tax shall be mandated for the noncompliance by such retailers. (3) Federal tax shall be charged to the consumer, collected by the retailer, and quarterly sent to the IRS.” -- It is a thought -- Out of the Box and no old ladies lose money and the rich can keep employing and buying things to stimulate the economy and - hey maybe manufacturing will move back to the US!

I would go a step further and let the Bush Tax Cuts expire with any increase in revenue, every dollar goes to debt reduction. NOT ONE PENNY gets spent. Go back to Graham, Rudman, Hollings.
Also, DO NOT repeal any Obamacare taxes, he owns them, do not let him off the hook.
Once we have more tax payers, more people with "skin" in the game we can then have a serious discussion on Cutting Spending and Cutting Taxes.

Last month, Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-Conn.) announced that he will not seek, and he will not accept, the nomination of his party for another term as governor. This is not all that surprising as he sits at at a 66 percent disapproval rating, tying him for the second highest disapproval rating of any governor.

Perhaps the most controversial policy proposal in the House Republican blueprint for tax reform is the "border adjustment tax." Also known as a destination-based cash-flow tax (DBCFT), the border adjustment tax serves two key purposes in the blueprint.

Ahead of the vote on the omnibus spending bill, FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon released the following statement about the organization's key vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R. 244:

On March 16, the Office of Management and Budget released the President’s proposal for a budget for the fiscal year of 2018. In summation, the President’s budget increased funding for all military related departments and entitlements programs and cut everything else. However, among some of his more controversial cuts was the decision to eliminate funding for the “arts.” Funding for programs such as the National Public Radio (NPR), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), and other “cultural programs” that having received support from the Federal government has been eliminated.

In Louisiana, fiscal integrity is going from bad to worse. Already, the state is facing the largest budget deficit in its entire history, at a whopping $700 million this year, and shortfall projections for next year reaching as high as $1.9 billion. However, in a misguided attempt to try to solve this behemoth of a problem, newly-elected Governor John Bel Edwards has proposed a massive package of tax hikes that affect all walks of life, from personal income to industry. What’s worse, if he has his way in imposing these hikes, the state residents could be feeling the brunt of the costs as early as April of this year. Clearly, Edwards isn’t fixing what ails the state.